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    [–] Hillock@feddit.de 38 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    You should ban anyone who tries this regardless of the outcome. There is always a small chance they did it on purpose trying to cause damage. There is no benefit by giving them another chance, you just riks giving them the possibility of doing more damage. If the thing was a mistake, the person will learn from it and find another job.

    [–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.de 26 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    If the task would have been to find general security risks this would have counted. I mean, he did some serious harm, but he was able to find a security issue.

    [–] bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    I think there is kind of an assumption that the scenario is "outside host gains privileged access" so there's not really a security issue with some attacker deleting root on their own box.

    [–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.de 6 points 9 months ago

    If it has been done properly you're right. If this also affected the host machine it is a security issue.

    [–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

    They did but it might have been a good idea to prove that the command works instead of actually doing it.

    [–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

    Yeah so is tossing a molotov on thier machines, "found a security issue not firproofing everything"

    [–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

    We'll I'm this case too, if true, the person didn't know anything about the job they were aplyiyfor and tried to cheat their way into the company. Also not really great.